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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    No its just poorgays cant run it

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >30fps 1080p on a 4090
      Nobody can run it

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        30 FPS is the target

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          So as he said, nobody can run it.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's crazy to have 30FPS be your target for a fricking PC game.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          and yet I could hit 45fps with a 3060TI, target my ass

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Your eyes can't see more than 24 frames per second. 60fps is a meme.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Are resolutions higher than 1080p also a meme?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          30 FPS is the target

          bro but at 1080p though?
          your game cant run at 60 at 1080p you are just moronic developers

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            It can. The benchmarks are disingenous because they all disabled FSR. With FSR on, the game runs at 60fps @ 1080p. Its just reviewers being moronic and not knowing what settings do.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              bandaid fix to deeper issues with the engineering tbdesu. FSR should put me to 144 hz not to 60

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              You should not need a scaler for a fricking city builder. I have one on my phone for christ sake.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >The benchmarks are disingenous because they all disabled FSR. With FSR on, the game runs at 60fps @ 1080p.
              who are these morons who bait and shitpost 24/7 and why haven't we gotten rid of them yet

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >the best possible hardware on the market is only going to get you 60 fps at 1080
              This is just incompetence. If you are intentionally pushing even the most high-end rigs to their limit just to look at 1080p textures you are a bad game developer. A 4090 is BARELY able to get 60fps at 1080 which means that thing is going nuts trying to accomplish it. A 4090 should be able to run any game in 1080 with ease, it should not be struggling in the slightest.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                That anon you're responding to is doing this in every thread. He took a case where it was clearly a matter of lack of optimization, where even the devs admitted it, and he keeps posting dozens of times in each thread insinuating that it's the users hardware's fault, it's literally trolling. Just report him and ignore him. He is autistic with severe mental problems.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >It's another "let's throw DLSS/FSR at it so we don't have to optimize our game" episode
              God this shit is getting so fricking stale

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Upscaling should be for hitting triple digit fps on older cards and not for scraping by to hit 60/1080p on 4090s. What year is it?

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            They started out as mobile game devs, so yeah.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              mobile is harder to get to run at a stable framerate than PC

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Your eyes can't see more than 24 individual frames in their entirety per second. You can absolutely perceive motion at higher rates, in fact you only need three photons to hit a specific spot on your retina to detect a blip of light.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I wanted to say that this joke is overplayed, but IMAGINE MY SHOCK when people still take the bait.
          Jesus

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            The real problem is that saying the most moronic stuff possible and hoping anyone reacts to it is considered noble here.

            If we rightly tarred and feathered morons this board would be a better place.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I just assume people that respond are /themselves/ baiting people to respond and call them an idiot for not knowing its a joke

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Eh, kinda.
          It's true, but you have two eyes, so that's 48 fps. Anything above that is wasted as long as we only have one set of eyes.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Honestly I find some level of comfort in knowing that this specific brand of moron will always exist.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          If that's so, then you won't see the punch from my hand coming through your shitty eyes.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nope it's 70-60 fps on 1080p high (drops to 40s on 1440p) if you have a 7950X3D. Clearly your CPU is not enough.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          moron. The game is GPU constrained on all levels. 40 FPS at 1440p for a city building game on a modern GPU is unacceptable.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        fricking poor people i swear ruining pc gaming frick off moron

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Cities skylines 1 looked good enough
        I read a little bit about how they decided to process traffic more realistically with each individual path. That's the stuff I want to see out of higher computer specs, not dumb shit like bigger textures

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn’t like the release art style. You can get CS1 looking good but you’ve gotta mod the game pretty extensively. You also get a PowerPoint presentation framerate eventually but CS2 isn’t much better on that front.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Cities skylines 1 looked good enough
          nah
          it looked like shit, ran like shit
          everything looked plastic and shiny for no reason, the lighting was bad and the grass looks like ass.
          but its not just the framerate ppl are complaining about 2
          its the classic Paradox "wait 10 years and $400 of DLC to have half of the features of the last game but worse"

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Even the dev teasers had insane frame drops and stuttering.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          yeah it ran like shit in all the youtuber previews I saw of it.
          I assumed it was at least a year out. Then it released lol

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        just buy a Titan bro, what are you poor

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      wienersuckers like you are the reason why PC gaming is dying.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        PC gamers
        >REEEEEEE CONSOLES ARE HOLDING US BACK!!!!!!!
        developers:
        >ok here is a game that pushes your hardware
        PC gamers:
        >REEEEEEEEE MY 970 CANT RUN THIS GAME!!!! OPTIMIZE IT AND BY OPTIMIZE I MEAN BUTCHER THE GAME !!!!

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >game looks, at best, the same as the previous one
          >runs 10 times worse
          >should've bought new hardware lol
          k

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          There is literally no reason for the game to run this badly.
          Might as well play the first Cities Skylines and run a crypto miner in the background for a similar experience.
          But keep being a incompetent dev apologist.
          I'd rather play Roller Coaster Tycoon anyway (which was coded in Assembly btw).

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >coded in assembly
            That's genuinely impressive, what happened to programmers? Did they stopped learning calculus?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          If it was a Crysis level leap in graphics, we could talk. This looks marginally better than the first game.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          You must be literally moronic if you think you just made a coherent argument.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're going to be seeing the seethe for many more years to come. The same people who shit on console players for having "inferior hardware" only have 1060s and 1080s, still have HDDs, likely 2-3 generations old CPUs, but turned everything down to run the games. Now that companies are moving away from supporting the PS4 and Xbox One in order to get behind the PS5 and Series X|S (at minimum), now we're "suddenly" seeing the crying and retaliation by the PC bros. I'm loving every second of it.

          If you want to play all of the current gen games and you mainly use your PC as a console anyway (so you don't use it for much at all except for games and browsing the internet), you can always get a PS5. Maybe even an Xbox Series X or the S. It won't kill you to do it.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            You are smoking crack if you think City Skylines 2 visuals and mechanics warrant such high performance costs. The most expensive intel + nviida CPU and GPU combo struggles to run the game at 4k.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          No its just poorgays cant run it

          this
          Ganker is too brown for this game

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            the devs are too brown to make games

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            It sounds more like the coders were too brown to optimize their game

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Consoler doesn't understand how optimization works
          No wonder they swallow shit like Jedi Fallen Order which is shit even on consoles.

          It's less:
          >REEEEE MY 10 YEAR OLD CARD CAN'T RUN IT!
          and more
          >REEEE MY 2-3 YEAR OLD CARD CAN'T RUN IT!

          Learn the difference, it'll make you less moronic.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Oink, piggy.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Get a job, squirt.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              GPU prices these days are bullshit even with a job.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          THIS. It was easy for the pcmasterrace to say that consoles are holding back in PS4/Xbone era. Because Xbone especially had a shit cpu and a GPU worse than a 750ti. So if you had a 750ti or R7 270 and a 2nd gen i5 or better, and your pc was better than the xbone.

          Now your pc needs to have a R7 3700X and a RX 6700 10gb just to match a PS5 or Series X. So all of a sudden these people with their 970's, 1050ti's and 1060's (which handed easily beat the Xbone and PS4), are struggling to run games. Also city skylines is a very CPU dependant game. Many people neglect their CPU and buy a better GPU. There are people with 4080s who have fricking i5's.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, CS2 is GPU dependent. Watch any of the benchmarking/performance reviews on youtube, the framerate issues are exclusively a result of GPU bottlenecking.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >very CPU dependant game
            Stop talking about shit you have no idea about

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          This isn't like Metro Exodus EE where the entire point is pushing the graphics. This is sequel that looks the same while running like complete shit. There is no justification for this. It's just laziness.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          if it can't run on a 4080, that's not pushing hardware, that's just not being able to run.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          /v/tard hipocricy has no bounds

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Third world morons lack self reflection. And proper budgeting skills to have a decent PC.
            PC gaming has been over run with morons who think their 6GB cards and 4 core processors can run games at max for 8 years. They last Gen being 7 years (9 with crossgen overlap/releases) made them arrogant.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              You ruined PC gaming because you treat it like an overpowered console

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                No I AM pc gaming because I always ensure my build is up to date within the last two years. 1080ti to a 3080ti and waiting for the 5080ti.
                You gays forgot what pc gaming is all about. Having the best version of a game running at its peak.
                I haven't looked at 'recommend specs' in over a decade

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                >3080ti
                uf, poorgay

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's being co-developed for consoles and they even had to push the console release date forward to 2024 because it's currently crashing the current ones lol

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >pc gaming is dying because you can't use low budget hardware from a decade ago and expect everything to be optimized for it
        Meanwhile, people with expensive 386es had to buy new hardware to play Quake and didn't whine anywhere near as much as you zoomoids that want a 2nd gen i5, a 750Ti, 4GB DDR3 RAM, and a 250GB HDD to be the optimization target of everything for 30 years.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          quake was written by an autistic optimization god, so the necessity to upgrade was just laws of physics. nothing more could be squeezed out of the engine. games these days use canned engines poorly without understanding the implications of how their architect their games

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            err frick "architecture affects their games"

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I'm sure that's what happened. Go see how a 386 processor without a graphics accelerator handles Quake. I'm sure it'll be fine, it's "optimized".
            Fun fact: people with older x86es had to upgrade to get DOOM to not run like shit. A 2D game that runs at 320x200.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              bro, did you read my post? people accepted that quake needed hardware upgrades because it was already optimized to a purring kitten and that you just needed the hardware to make it run. if cities skylines looked like crysis 2.0, i would accept the performance problems, but this is obviously amateur devs or outsourcing. saying "just upgrade" isn't going to hide that fact.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                People accepted upgrades because it wasn't 1992 anymore and technology had moved on. Your autistic fixation on a misunderstanding of optimization has no bearing on this. It wasn't until the 7th generation of consoles lasted 8 years long while all PC gaming save Crysis used said console hardware as their render target that people started thinking their dogshit old hardware that was good 8 years ago needs to be considered competitive now.

                >Yeah this is literally just [old game/console] reductionism
                >even attempting to compare a first person RPG with maybe a dozen npcs loaded in at a time to a city builder which can and likely will be rendering hundreds of said NPCs at a time on a much larger map
                God I hate tech illiterates
                Please have a nice day, if you can figure out how

                Learn how to read before taking a shit on your keyboard and considering it a response.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            yeah just that the complexity of q1 is nothing compared to cs2. same goes for the pc it runs on. it could be optimized like that but it would take thousands of years

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, but they upgraded to see a jump from Wolfenstein to Quake to Unreal Tournament to Half Life 2 to Crysis.
          Nothing in this game looks like it warrants a month's gross salary worth of upgrades. Let alone buying it twice, first to play only somewhat and then the latest gigaray RGTX 9999 to get it to 60 FPS stable once the city is more than a hamlet.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            You're either overblowing old tech updates or underblowing modern ones. What you're seeing with Shitties: Skylines is roughly Oblivion model quality and 2002 textures, zoomed into a first or third person game's camera distance when it's meant to be far out bird's eye view. Sim City 2000 on the PS1 also had complete dogshit below what the PS1 could display when you toggled on the first person driving view, but it looked fine from the zoomed out view.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Yeah this is literally just [old game/console] reductionism
              >even attempting to compare a first person RPG with maybe a dozen NPCs loaded in at a time to a city builder which can and likely will be rendering hundreds of said NPCs at a time on a much larger map
              God I hate tech illiterates
              Please have a nice day, if you can figure out how

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                This
                Sega Saturn had one tech demo where it renders a 3d model that looks like it came straight up from GTA San Andreas. By this mans logic Sega Saturn should have been able to run GTA SA.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Exactly. I'm sure the people who bought Pentium 2 Overdrives and Riva TNT's in 1998 and whined less when just 3 years later GTA 3 required a Pentium 3 and a Riva TNT 2's as minimun settings.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Oh and even that Riva TNT2 Ultra which was a top of the line gpu back in 1999, was only able to run GTA 3 in teens. And gta 3 only came 2 years later.

            Imagine if a 3090 would only be able to run games in teens today at 720p? I wonder how many people would whine about that. But for some reason not nearly as many did back in 2001.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm old enough to remember almost shitting my fricking pants the first time I saw Quake running at some local market where a dude was selling pirated games because there was absolutely nothing else like it on the PC at that time.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I’ve seen several youtubers run it perfectlyz

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      please stop projecting
      try to be less moronic, too, if possible.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      bait

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. Game is rough, but I can handle her just fine.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      poorhomosexuals dont own 3 4090s in SLI

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It feels like this year every major release has been having issues with even mediocre to high rigs. Have they truly left everything in the hands of the nvidia AI to pixelate and generate stuff on the fly?

      Here is your answer.

      At this point it isn't even a Paradox only problem. It feels like every big release has this kind of garbage

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's more because outsourcing is worse than ever where large bulks of games are being done by way too many studios who just don't give a shit about the end product and only care about getting whatever the agreement they have with the company done.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >frick it, ship it
      Considering it's the #1 seller on Steam right now, clearly, this was the right move. morons will buy anything.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      what a great idea

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    4090 struggles at 1080p, and it's not like this is a crysis-tier forward thinking release, so there's no excuse.

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Here is your answer.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      kek i was mildly looking forward to paralives because the head ts2 dev was on it, would my money be better spent on bomb rush cyberfunk or the new ffxiv pack?

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It runs like shit.
    Shame too, I was really looking forward to it.

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's just another "Piece of bread you have to buy ingredients (for 49$ each) to enjoy" like any other parashit game

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    runs like pure dogshit

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stop being poor

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I sincerely hope you are being ironic.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >25fps on a 4080

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's at 1440p though which is a really high resolution. I've been running at 60fps with my 4080 at 900p.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          That is fricking dogshit. Get better standards.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          kys

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >That's at 1440p though which is a really high resolution.
          are you living in 2005

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >1440p
      That's why. This is a 1080p game. Imagine being so stupid to get a 1440p or a 4k display. 4080 was always a 1080p card and 4090 will be one soon too.

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nothing wrong with first one
    >make second one so they can resell the dlc again
    come on.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      wrong with first one
      Besides traffic management, just as dog shit performance as your city gets huge, and other issues, I guess?

      2 should've refined the first, instead in typical Paradox fashion it redoes the same mistakes as the earlier versions.

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    hahahahahahahahaha

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's over.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cities life did it better

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Practically every game of this style has made better NPCs, even Cities Skylines 1 with the low poly models is much better, they are not aggressively ugly and distracting, at least.
        CS2's NPCs prove that the devs didn't care about the game, it's basically something random with no artistic concern in even creating coherence between the NPCs and the surroundings, people saying that they are generic Unity assets may be right. In the case of CS2, the devs didn't even take care to at least choose assets that better match what they intend to achieve.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Love it.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        idgi

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous
      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are a gentleman and a scholar

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        i hope OC gays like you never leave this board, it is the last shine of hope in an otherwise underage swarm of phoneposting morons

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      looks like a fricking tony hawk custom character

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >100k on Steam
      modern pc gays are really slop eaters

      hahaha, i can't take it anymore, real life is a fricking clown show

      >Crysis is designed for future hardware
      >"ZOMG This one is going to age like wine!"

      >Cities: Skylines II is designed for future hardware
      >"FRICKING b***h bloody basterds. I don't want to lower settings and scale resolution down! My 2060 is still top of the line good dammit sirs!"

      homosexual, Crysis look better than 80% of today games, this garbage barely look better than the previous game while in some instances look fricking worse

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      he... he looks like me...

      he's built like me.. I... thank you

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      He thicc boi, he THICC, that's a THICC ASS BOI, GOD DAMN

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >THIS SHIT DOESNT EVEN LOOK BETTER THAN CS1
      idk what you mean

      Cims are made using Popul8, an AI powered character generator. Here is the Colossal Order devblog and Popul8 website.
      https://colossalorder.fi/?p=2049
      >We partnered with Didimo, who created the Popul8 character design software that perfectly addresses our design needs: Create a lot of varied characters quickly and easily.
      https://www.didimo.co/popul8
      >Popul8: Generative AI Game Characters. Accelerate game production with unlimited & unique characters.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Actual AI slop is now being used in larger games
        The end times approach even faster than before.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        forgot webm

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          looks like someone hitting randomize on the character creation screen

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        forgot webm

        Facegen: AIslop edition

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        forgot webm

        >What if we randomized parameters on our 3D human model
        >But then say it's AI driven!
        >"Brilliant!"
        Make it stop

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The power of the 4090

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      me enjoying the hustle and bustle

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      25 FPS by the way, the graphical fidelity is just so next gen

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      this POS looks like he would have a CS2 keewee farms thread

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >American Skylines

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      starfield has a competitor for ugliest procgen NPCs of the year.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      m-male or female?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      no cap on god he be lookin just like me frfr

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      most passable troony ever depicted

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Paradox has learned that their fans have no standards. Every single Paradox game now launches with negative reviews, and they are all on top the best selling charts anyway. Paradox could shit in a bag and their fans would whine about it, but buy it anyway.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sim city shits bed.
      >release skylines one which quickly becomes the city builder game for modern days.
      >release broken skylines 2

      They really wanted to emulate the trajectory of the sim city people to the letter.

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why would someone buy this slop when Manor Lords is dropping by the end of the year?

  13. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    check the credits i bet its indians

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe but the bitter truth is that Paradox Interactive have been abusing their customers for years because they know they're the only game in town for people with management/strategy game autism. The way DLC works in Europa Universales means the game is unplayable if you only have the base game, and need to spend around $100 extra dollars for something that actually works as described. What's worse, all the DLC is interlinked in really scummy ways, so there's no way to, for example, just buy DLC centered on Islamic countries because it usually comes bundled with a rework for systems that affect all nations. Hearts of Iron 4 came out basically as a playable alpha and has only just now started to incorporate things beyond what was in the base games of HOI2/3.

      Paradox knew the performance was miserable and also knows they're going to get away with it because their community are like beaten wives.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Hearts of Iron 4 came out basically as a playable alpha and has only just now started to incorporate things beyond what was in the base games of HOI2/3.

        It was more fun back then. They keep over-complicating it. I wouldn't mind anywhere near as much if they gave the player options over turning the
        >diplomacy
        >supply stuff
        etc on or off, rather than just "revert to earlier version lol" like, Paradox, its a fricking game, you can put on/off options in guys

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Not even really talking about expansion features. I more meant that the core selling point of the game, the Focus Trees, were either outright missing from key belligerent nations or were woefully underwhelming for nations that had them. I remember the first American tree was basically the world tension waiting room, and the Soviets played the same game every time unless they actually let the revolution events fire for some reason. It was just so bare bones and even now, like $200 worth of DLC later there are still some historical belligerent nations that are stuck with the generic focus tree. I'm not saying I need Nepal or Paraguay to have a focus tree but can we at least get one for fricking Finland already

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Oh right. Sorry, yes, on that point regarding Focus Trees, I completely agree.
            >can we at least get one for fricking Finland already
            thought the latest one added one for Finland?

            Also I'm kinda moronic, I forget how much mods can plug the gaps of Paradox's bullshit.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              >thought the latest one added one for Finland?
              So they did, my bad I haven't kept up with Paradox since the By Blood Alone fiasco. Not sure how that panned out or if they ever fixed it (Going from Steam reviews; No) but they're moving ahead with another DLC pack. And I think with that, the game will finally have a focus tree for every nation that was involved in World War 2, including important non-belligerents like Sweden.

              But looking back through the DLCs, Communist/Nationalist China didn't have a focus tree until the third expansion. You know, one of the major theaters of the war and a key component in Japan's involvement? That should really inform anyone looking to buy a current day Paradox game. Whether or not you like the genre or the game is kind of an irrelevant question because you first have to accept that you'll be paying $110+ for a game in any kind of playable state.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Do people really not just pirate all games? I haven't bought a game since the PS2 era. Thanks paypigs!

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >the bitter truth is that [developers] have been abusing their customers for years because they know they're the only game in town for people with [niche genre] autism
        why is this so common

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          No anti-trust enforcement. Also the SEC likely doesn't look at this as one company dominated a demographic market, and thinks of it as a small game company not yet killed off by a bigger one, with the entire gaming market being considered as just one, huge as frick market.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          because paradox has a monopoly on every autism spectrum game except factorio

  14. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Performance issues and the paradox development model. Which means all previous content is no longer present and you will have to buy again for exorbitant prices.

  15. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The problem isn't old GPUs though, it's memory and CPU.

    Because it's not a graphics or optimization problem, it's the game simulating a whole bunch of shit. I know this board is filled with stupid fricking console Black folk who cannot fathom the idea of actual computational complexity or simulators as a genre but this is the point of the game and is a good thing.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      except the performance is still dogshit on an empty map with presumably almost nothing being simulated

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Its memory and CPU
      Its not. Reviewers have benchmarked this shit. The graphics settings have tremendous impact on performace. The game isn't actually that CPU heavy at all.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      kys nerd

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      wtf you talking about ? even with a 7800X3D the game shits the bed

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Can you shut the frick up about shit you have no clue about? Nobody wants to read your delusions

  16. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >parashits new release slop
    Ah, what a good day.

  17. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    don't worry, they'll get around to fixing it after the first five 15 dollar DLCs drop

  18. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why do idiots enjoy buying goyslop so much?

  19. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    For some reason they are adament about simulator every single person. So you have hundreds of thousands of citizens moving around the city

    Instead of, you know, just simulating it. hence why Simcity 4 let you build 1:1 ratio cities of tens of millions back in 2003 while this one is capped below a million

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I unironically can't wrap my head around the fact that they NEED to make "le simulate every person" as if it had any impact when your city could have dozens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people.
      Hell, even if you wanted to follow your little people around to see what they do, SimCity 4 let you do that 20 fricking years ago without the need of simulating individually every fricking thing.
      Instead it makes that ""feature"" into an horrible bottleneck that won't ever allow you to build cities larger thank a small city without melting your CPU. But hey, "every person is individually simulated" sounds soo good right?
      Just fricking make a new city builder and focus on creating procedural buildings that adapt to any plot shape. That isn't new tech either, and simulate everything else statistically like it was done previously, and focus on gameplay depth instead of "le traffic accidents with physical simulation xD".
      FRICK

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Even them I feel like you could pull it off.
        >person #16,729 wakes up here
        >goes to work
        Like the path they go should be easily saved and simulated in a database. Unless they change jobs or move or go to school or graduate they should easily have set paths with no actual CPU needed

        You'd have 1) work/school date 2) relax day 3) shop day

        I feel like if you opened the code you'd see a metric ass ton of if else statements as they actually for some reason simulate their day to day

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's not like they simulate whole life, it's just path simulation, they do it to reduce complexity of simulation.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I unironically can't wrap my head around the fact that they NEED to make "le simulate every person" as if it had any impact when your city could have dozens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people.
      Hell, even if you wanted to follow your little people around to see what they do, SimCity 4 let you do that 20 fricking years ago without the need of simulating individually every fricking thing.
      Instead it makes that ""feature"" into an horrible bottleneck that won't ever allow you to build cities larger thank a small city without melting your CPU. But hey, "every person is individually simulated" sounds soo good right?
      Just fricking make a new city builder and focus on creating procedural buildings that adapt to any plot shape. That isn't new tech either, and simulate everything else statistically like it was done previously, and focus on gameplay depth instead of "le traffic accidents with physical simulation xD".
      FRICK

      You frickers complained about the same shit in the original.
      Everyone wants to see their citizens moving around their city. But nobody asked for this

      hahahahahahahahaha

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >could have a proper simulator where you can easily build cities in the millions (like actual cities)
        >instead you get a game where you can at most play with maybe 100k people before melting your CPU (and the simulation is literally worse) but hey at least you can every once in a while follow 0.00001% of that whole simulation.
        Like I said SC4 did the same shit 20 years ago. Just statistically simulate everything and let the game simulate the 3 random people you actually care about in the middle of everything.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >before melting your CPU
          Get it in your head that this trashheap can't figure out the graphics so awfully that the cpu never comes into the picture. 100k population, 28% utilization on a 7950x3D, while a 4090 struggles to maintain a consistent frame pace.

          And you still miss how important it is for a lot of people to see their city being vibrant. This goes all the way back to Sierra games with their pathfinding nightmare. And as fun as it would be to deny the walkable 15min city mentally ill homosexuals a method to visualize their "utopia", they couldn't figure it out in the original either. And the only problem citizens pose in that is if they hit the 32bit integer limit of the awful unity engine.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            SC4 cities looked more vibrant than CS1 cities with all their individually simulated people. I still can't say about CS2.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Both SC4 and CS1 required mods to look vibrant. SC4 certainly looked more consistent at release compared to CS1
              >I still can't say about CS2.
              Nobody can you fricking dumbass. Especially seeing as it's been in the wild for a whole 4 hours. In fact this is setting people's expectations back so much despite how much processing power we've gotten since SC4.

              >want to see your citizens move around the city
              You could do that in Simcity 4. The thing is, they didn't simulate everyone, all of the time. You could make a Sims and it would simulate them.

              I'm aware.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, even at release SC4 looked more vibrant (sovful or whatever) than in CS1. Hard to say why, I guess it was related to the fact that it was full of small details that let you see your city was "alive" (even without individually simulated agents). For sale signs popping up if residential demand was too low, patchy grass in shitty neighborhoods, trashcans everywhere if you didn't have enough trash collecting capacity, graffiti if crime was high, hell you could literally zoom in and see cars being stolen lmao, etc.
                In CS1 cities would always look generic, and shit like crime would have 0 impact in how your city looked (just a symbol floating above whatever building untl you "fixed" the problem, same for all other issues).
                My only point is that cities looking "vibrant" or not is something completely unrelated from having your citizens being individually simulating eating up your processing capacity
                >GPU is the bottleneck not the CPU!!
                Yeah I know, but even if they fixed the graphic issues and Unity limitations, I doubt this game would be able to pull cities with 1 or 2 million agents/citizens without shitting itself.
                And yes Black person I haven't played CS2 either yet, that's why said "I still can't say". I hope they fixed the soufullness of the game in this instance.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                And what I'm saying is there shouldn't be any issue with citizen pathfinding eating up processing capacity with modern hardware. No matter how dense the city becomes. But we're stuck with devs building trash on top of generic engines that mobile games flock to, so now it appears to still be a limitation.
                >I can see scripts play out when zoomed in
                Great? I wish crime and other negative things were reflected better in Skylines, and while I'm somewhat looking forward to making homeless camps, the dev's general stance is obviously at odds with anything negative happening to a town aside from complaints about shit you can easily avoid in the first place.

                There's also something to be said about modern western devs having zero creative or even cohesive direction.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >want to see your citizens move around the city
        You could do that in Simcity 4. The thing is, they didn't simulate everyone, all of the time. You could make a Sims and it would simulate them.

  20. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >paradox game releases and its a dumpster fire of optimized broken crap
    NO
    FRICKING
    SHIT

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      their games have been excellent up to this point. i run the originally skylines, stellaris, on my mac and linux laptops which have integrated graphics. they're just strategy games....

  21. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Spend $2000 on a gpu so you can get 60fps in a game with PS2 graphics
    NOPE, NOT GETTIN OUTTA THIS 1070

  22. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'll wait 10 years like i did with the original.

  23. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    how do I refund, I've not had to do this yet?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Click the game in your library and then click the support tab.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I guess I'll go back to playing my poorgay games like Cyberpunk on max settings with Raytracing.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Later ESL

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Later ESL
            why do I keep seeing people call normal english "ESL?" i swear half the time there's nothing wrong with the post being called out

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Half of the people on here have a fourth graders reading comprehension. Why are you surprised they can‘t write their own language?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why not play a good game instead?

  24. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    No it's actually very fun right now. Like legitimately fun. This what the first Cities game should've been

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's cities skylines 1 ya dummy

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why can I sense the low FPS from a screenshot

  25. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Theres no reason for this game to exist
    other than paradox israelites milking another 20 DLC packs. Its poorly optimized by design, anyone not pirating paradox games at this point is just moronic

  26. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like the same exact thing happened with the first game and were repeating history. Am I losing my mind?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah but the first game was developed by a company of like less than 10 developers. With the millions they made and their much larger team of devs you would expect them to do better, specially considering there isn't anything groundbreaking in the new game aside from some improvements.

  27. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Running it right now on 3080ti and on linux of all of the things, it works fine on my machine. It was running at 20fps in first seconds when game loads all of the models and textures, then it calmed down and jumped up to steady, constant 90fps. Can't say it's the most optimized game I've ever played, but it's definitely not tragic, having fun.

    Steam reviews are probably based on players having 10fps in first second of the game, instantly ragequitting because they saw bad reviews, and then leaving a bad review themselves because they're convinced that this is how it is. Classic hate train.

  28. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >devs outsource game to UK
    >UK outsources game to eastern europeans
    >eastern europeans outsource game to chinese
    >chinese outsource game to indians
    >indians outsource game to the phillipines
    >nobody knows what the frick to do because everyone got different conflicting information from the previous outsourcer
    >zero work gets done with millions of dollars being drained for nothing
    many such cases
    never outsource your projects, because they will just keep passing it to someone else until the money stops flowing

  29. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Crysis is designed for future hardware
    >"ZOMG This one is going to age like wine!"

    >Cities: Skylines II is designed for future hardware
    >"FRICKING b***h bloody basterds. I don't want to lower settings and scale resolution down! My 2060 is still top of the line good dammit sirs!"

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It would be fine if it wasn't just an almost carbon copy of the original with a few improvements here and there. It doesn't even look that much better than the original game.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Zoom out
        >"See it doesn't look so different at all!"

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      What part of
      >the game looks barely any better than its decade old predecessor
      do you not grasp

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Zoom in moron. Characters don't look like muddy clay dolls

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Oh wow, yeah, totally worth it man, yeah
          Fricking shit eater

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah adding a bunch of crappy "models" in a *city builder* where you spend 99.99% of the time zoomed out to actually, you know, *build a city*, with like 10k tris each (greater than pretty much any building in this, again, *city builder*) is such a great improvement. Yeah they look amazing on top of that. They really nailed it modeling the teeth, underwear and individual fingers, this is clearly what the game needed to stand out.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why not load those details in only when you zoom in? You know basic optimization

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              They probably do. It's Gankeredditors shitposting about games they don't play again, just like looking at the super high-poly models that exist for food and clutter objects in Starfield and tactically omitting the part where those models only load in when you're in the menu inspecting the object.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >those models
            I take it back, modern California simulator looking good, I'll order a 4090 now

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            They're Sims 3 levels of ugly too. It's so fricking stupid everyone involved needs to be fired.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            This is what finnish people look like

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Only in Helsinki, senpai.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I wonder if I can somehow influence the type of people who move in and get a town of midgets

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Of course not, and you wont be able to tinker with the character generator either in the name of diversity

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh man

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            How does shit like this pass any sort of QA?

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              see

              This is what finnish people look like

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              is that Norman Reedus? damn he really let himself go.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Does he vibrate through walls or merely clip through them unintentionally?

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                implying Radical Larry is in any shape or form unintentional

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            buddy are you under the impression that these models are loaded while you're zoomed out

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >wearing her underwears above your clothes

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Eruopean chicks are freaky.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Me on my way to frick your framerate

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      raytracing is the "look into the future now even if it's really frickin' slow" technology. that's the crysis kind of thing i expect. not this:

      hahahahahahahahaha

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        She/her looks beautiful. Post your pic if you're so stunning as brave.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      What part of
      >PC gamers no longer exist and have been completely replaced with console Black folk
      do you not grasp

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm playing the game
        >Console monkeys got delayed
        >"PC gamers no longer exist and have been completely replaced with console Black folk"
        Chatbot, are you ok?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      My 1060 can still run it right???

  30. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    damn it feels good to not fall for the israelitevidia scam, imagine paying a scalper 3 grand for a GPU only to not even play games at locked 120 4k lmao

  31. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    how many people in this thread have a deep collection of schizo basedjack gifs

  32. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >game can only be played if you have a graphics card made in the last two years
    >this means 99% of your audience can't play it
    Fricking genius

  33. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The fact that factorio runs better with a million different moving parts but this game shits itself with barely 10,000 citizens tells you that the game was designed by brain dead diversity hires

  34. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    didn't the devs literally say in an interview that the game is an unoptimized piece of shit but they are releasing anyway? Fricking paypigs still buying it kek

  35. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    so what's even different about it other than god awful performance and no ripoff DLC?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It has a 2 in the name! You don't want to be that loser moron still playing the version without a 2 after it do you?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        NO PLEASE I WANNA CONFORM I'LL BE GOOD I'LL BUY IT MMM I LOVE GAME I LOVE TO CONSUME

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The economy simulation is a lot better, implemented supply chains to go from industry specific to be specific goods produced in zoned industrial for commercial and residential zoned buildings.
      >You get more fine scale control of city services.
      >modular buildings.
      >building scaling has changed so you can build a big city with a few smaller satellite regional towns.
      >Cim simulation is meant to be more detailed.
      >no more cartoony art style.

      It will lacks a lot of features from the airports/mass transit and hotels expansion. Knowing paradox they’ll be sold back to you as expansions at higher prices. I’m going to wait till the beta testers get the problems then get it on sale. Modded CS1 is still fine.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >mass transit
        That entire thing was a farce
        >hotels
        Pointless minigame for easy money
        Thought I saw some people building custom airports already, but it's far as an unlock milestone.

        >3080ti
        >21 fps on the main menu with GPU usage pegged at 99%
        Jesus christ what the frick

        Managed to start a new city yet? The only thing we haven't seen yet is cpu thread utilization, just averages.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Still fun customising hotel chains, I liked making tropical island resort complexes and was hoping to make a seasonal ski/MTB resort in 2.

  36. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >somehow worse than shitty skylines 1
    also
    >paradox

  37. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Game runs about as well as a bag of smashed buttholes, and now Paradox employees are in this very thread using the "poor gamer" meme.

  38. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The devs said they are aiming for 30 fps performance (with a 4090)

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      In other words, it's fricked, they know it's fricked, and they don't know how to unfrick it.

  39. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is this shit still made in unity?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes.

  40. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    For every brokie complaining about performance it's your own fault. The game reads your bank account balance and for every 5K USD you receive 1FPS. Everyone that is b***hing about 2-4FPS on the main menu, just lmao

  41. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gamepass curse

  42. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    There unironically should be federal regulations mandating that you're not allowed to sell a game this broken. Car companies can't sell cars where maybe the breaks will work this time. Gaming companies shouldn't be allowed to sell broken ass products.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      noooooooo i need the government to step in to stop me buying garbage. why don't we just kill consumers that make poor choices instead

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Noooooo. Companies need freedom to sell me snake oil and defective products.
        >Companies need the freedom to merge with all their competitors and form monopolies!
        >They need the freedom to sell guns and fentanyl!
        >They need the freedom to avoid class lawsuits and defer all problems to expensive arbitration courts!
        >Oh God the companies need so many more freedoms, please think of the companies!

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          i don't care about the companies profits, i just want idiots to be allowed to buy scams so they can either learn their lesson or suffer for it

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FPS gays think citybuilders need frames at the expense of fidelity
      Bandwagoner

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        In what world is 60 fps not good for basically every game? You know that menuing with choppy frame rates is extremely frustrating, right? Even games like Final Fantasy 8, despite running at around 20fps, made sure to have menus run at 60fps because navigating a menu at a choppy framerate is a nightmare. And Cities Skylines 2 has a ton of menus because it's a strategy game you fricking mongoloid.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >C:S is a strategy game and not a traffic simulator/citybuilder
          Bandwagoning moron

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Not him but they're strategy games, just not military strategy. We allow city builders on /vst/ for a reason.

  43. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >can't program for shit and release trash game
    >it's for future hardware lmao
    Stunning and brave deflection, you hacks

  44. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    glad it shit. I hate city building games. eat shit.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      very rude comment

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
  45. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    (unlocked) Anno 1800 is the superior city builder anyways

  46. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    i will buy, negatively review and refund all games that don't run 10 million FPS on a 1070. optimize your games browns.

  47. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >what if we made cities xxl but even shittier
    thus cs2 was born

  48. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've just spent 15 minutes trying to connect my fresh water piping system to a pump. Wtf happened?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Skill issue. Get better.

  49. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I played for about an hour on medium settings. The game runs perfectly fine so far. No issues with fps on the main menu or anything. Didn't even have problems with the weather.
    Mods will make the game much better than it is now, but so far, it's decent.
    You just need to get a better rig.

  50. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ryzen 7 5800X3D
    >RX 6800 XT
    >Running on Loonix

    Unironically enjoying it so far. I'm only at around 1.5k population so the performance issues haven't really hit me yet, but I did get like 14 fps on main menu until I turned down volumetrics/global illumination (wtf). I also disabled shadows because the shimmering was driving me nuts. Right now I hover around 60 fps constant.

    Appart from poor performance, the game is pretty much improvement over the original in every way. I like the new unlocking system and the ability to build midrises early. The product chain and industry types seem to play bigger role this time around. They have added more depth to the gameplay and simulation, but I cant say yet how much it ultimately changes the way you play the game. They also should add more control over zoning since the game has it's own ideas which roads take priority over others.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      looks comfy. The smoke could look better.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I really want to play it but as it stands now my 3070 ti would struggle on the main menu

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'd like to enjoy it but if the performance is that shit, I'm going to wait for patches

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      You do not deserve to live

  51. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Any repacks coming out soon? I had it preordered but refunded that shit when the benchmarks came out. I have a 4080 but I'm still not gonna pay for it until I can get at least a stable 60fps on 1440p.

  52. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is an easy fix
    >slaps DLSS frame generation on it

  53. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a disaster.. good. Paradox deserves it, greedy swedish israelites.

  54. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    remember when the last sim city claimed they needed the power of the cloud to run their extremely advanced simulations and it all turned out to be total horseshit?

    I think the devs go into city builders thinking "how hard can it be? it's all just databases with a visual layer on top" and they neglect all the tips and strategies for writing good, optimized code

  55. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    What did they spend all the money from CS1 on?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      cocaine

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's not a great look when your second game is a flop lmao

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I never understood that shit. Who wants chocolate full of dust, bacteria from clueless people who put their fingers there, floating ant corpses, etc.?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Opulence
          Literally "because you don't/can't have one"

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      we'll have to wait for the credits, but there's a good chance very few of the designers and devs worked on this compared to CS1

      CS1's director was also the director / lead designer for both Cities in Motion which was a much smaller but very soulful city builder game. she left in 2019

  56. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can we go back to 2D city builders?
    This is dead end.

  57. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Works on my machine

  58. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm starting to believe that it is done on purpose, so the entire gaming industry can push consumers toward game streaming services under the pretense that no consumer grade hardware can run new games at a decent framerate

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      ok but instead of paying for subscriptions I am actually just not going to buy new games instead

  59. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's finally proof that all the "muh poorgays" posters are shitposters and should be banned, because hardware to run CS2 properly literally doesn't exist

  60. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The fact that consoles need to limit controls to fit on a controller means inherently that consoles hold back the entire video game industry

  61. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >muh framerate
    Black person it's a city builder not a shooter, it doesn't even have to be 30 fps let alone whatever moronic 3 digit number you claim you "need"

  62. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >My PC is bad therefore the game is bad
    I will never understand poorgays

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah a 4090 and 14900k getting 60fps at 1080p is good

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Crysis couldn't be maxed at that resolution and framerate on hardware till years after its launch, and it was a good game.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >it was a good game
          No it wasn't and CS2 looks like Sims 2, a game from 2004. It's not pushing graphical boundaries in any way.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >its not pushing graphical boundaries in any way
            Read the thread, moron. Even a 4090 can barely handle the game. That's the definition of pushing the boundaries.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              A game that doesn't look good isn't pushing boundaries, it's just unoptimized.
              Nothing looked better than Crysis when it came out. Cities Skylines II doesn't even look better than the first game.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Usually a CPU performance limit in these types of games.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              no it isn't

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Pushing the boundaries of what, surrealism?

              >THIS SHIT DOESNT EVEN LOOK BETTER THAN CS1
              idk what you mean

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      on the literal best hardware available it runs like shit though

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      you probably have autism. do you also have problems discerning different faces?

  63. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Microsoft's touch of death strikes again. It's on Game Pass and they probably got forced into a strict deadline.

  64. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Paradox shills get btfo about how the game is poorly optimized due to incompetent devs and cant run worth a shit on top of the line hardware
    >start spamming moronic consolegay-tier baitposts
    it would be so funny if it werent so pitiful

  65. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >city sim
    >requires 4090 to play
    what the frick is this game doing, harvesting bitcoins while it plays?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      you're mining a virtual bitcoin for your virtual citizens to use for all their transactions. Watch out for that 51% attack!

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Time to upgrade

  66. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >3080ti
    >21 fps on the main menu with GPU usage pegged at 99%
    Jesus christ what the frick

  67. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does the game look too easy?
    Every "city upgrade" you get millions.
    Landscaping is free.
    In cities skyline 1 you had to wait and be patient to afford services.
    Roads cost a couple quid.

  68. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jesus Christ this is damning
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JIUokAXWOvHYsVZzJv7Skju5oKgm0-r4/edit#gid=1599548328

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >RAM: 96 GB

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        pretty sure that's 96% utilization

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        4x24
        Very few Ryzen 7ks can run 4x32

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      HOW
      THIS SHIT DOESNT EVEN LOOK BETTER THAN CS1

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >THIS SHIT DOESNT EVEN LOOK BETTER THAN CS1
        idk what you mean

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          sexoooooo

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          giwtwm

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          > wasting all their budget putting speed runners in the game

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >"I can't wait to go to SGDQ this year!"

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          They somehow made it look worse than the first game. Incredible.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Why do you need to zoom in this far, seems like a self made problem. I don't mean the player shouldn't zoom in but why would colossal order let you zoom in so far. Given the game scale there's nothing to be won with this level of zoom

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      96GB RAM!??!
      I bought 64GB and I thought I was being cheeky Guess I'm going 128.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's UTILIZATION not TOTAL MEMORY

  69. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Saw a colleague starting this earlier today. He switched to CS after 10 minutes lol

  70. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can someone explain 1% lows like I'm a moron.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      basically a way to tell if and how bad the game stutters

  71. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >A building is on fire!
    >it's the firehouse

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's why you have more than one in an area

  72. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >50,000 different camera photo options
    >the game looks like shit regardless and has no mods to make it look better
    i feel sorry for whoever had to code in all the different camera sensors and aperture shapes and panini projections, all in service of nothing

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous
  73. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Release a trashfire house burning video game to the masses
    >Put out an accolades trailer showing how good the reviews are
    Mission Accomplished

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's the journalists fault for giving it good reviews.

  74. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    so this is exactly the same game as the 1st one with a new coat of paint?
    minus key gameplay mechanics to be sold as DLC one by one of course
    and its completely broken on most computers?
    and "people" are buying it in droves?

    i hate paradox, but god damn do i genuinely loathe the paradox community

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >she doesn't know

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >buying
        au contraire, it was cracked in under an hour

        i of course dont mean you fine gentlemen, but the human sludge in the steam swamp

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          4000 reviews, 70% negative
          hopefully the negative reviewers have requested refunds

          I'm getting this kinda vibe...

          it actually just sucks ass, check

          Jesus Christ this is damning
          https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JIUokAXWOvHYsVZzJv7Skju5oKgm0-r4/edit#gid=1599548328

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            The issues with the performance CS2 are apparent in the main menu, so a lot of people will actually refund within the 2 hour window.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >hopefully the negative reviewers have requested refunds
            if they did then the positive review count would go up because valve is moronic and won't let negative reviews stay up for refunded games

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              i don't think it works that way but i don't have a source to prove you wrong

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                If you refund a game, your review is removed. You have to be willing to keep the game instead of refunding it if you want your review to stay, which defeats the point of reviews for shit games.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                refunds are just save scumming
                learn to live with your mistakes

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                false, i see plenty of reviews with the "product refunded" tag

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's just wrong though

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                I was wrong then. So, I don't understand. Do they just purge negative reviews for no reason then?

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm guessing that reviews weren't updating during steam maintenance and suddenly a bunch all got dumped together at once. Earlier there were about 3.3k when it was mostly negative.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                That only happens with games that offer betas/early access. Once the official release date passes, all reviews are valid.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >buying
      au contraire, it was cracked in under an hour

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The actually unfricked traffic is a big draw

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        how can you tell, the traffic barely moves

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      No, it's not exactly the same game, it has many overhauled and more complex systems and they introduced a few new mechanics and added to the base game some that were previously mods.
      But yeah, gameplay wise, it's basically a better foundation than CSI that will take a couple of years to get as much content as the first game (and you will pay for all the DLC's)
      That is, if they ever solve the performance issues.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it has many overhauled and more complex systems and they introduced a few new mechanics and added to the base game some that were previously mods
        Haven't had much time with it yet, but roads are amazing to build now, I'm genuinely surprised. If anything they absolutely nailed that. I just feel like a fricking idiot for trusting the finns and buying a Paradox game on release, when anything elkse I get from them needs to be heavily discounted for me to even look at

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      They added tools and updated a bunch of underlying systems, including the economy and adding homelessness. But it's too easy for either to matter.
      >minus key gameplay mechanics to be sold as DLC one by one of course
      It has all the popular and important things from the various DLC in the original. The only 'major' thing missing is bicycles, but that's practically free money.

      Still fun customising hotel chains, I liked making tropical island resort complexes and was hoping to make a seasonal ski/MTB resort in 2.

      I guess, but I never liked any of the "Now you own this business chain!" sort of updates.

  75. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm getting this kinda vibe...

  76. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Going back to CS1 is literally an upgrade compared to this. Not only will the game perform better, but the fricking terrain won't constantly frick with your town. My god they fricked this game hard.

  77. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    1070-chan, gambare

  78. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did (you) honestly expect anything else from >Paradox
    just stick to the first one and wait an year for them to fix it or just play another builder

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      What does the publisher have to do with the games performance?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        moron pajeet

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          oh this is where I call you a dumb troony right? Explain yourself moron

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >no u
            classic sub 80iq

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              Seems about as intelligent as just calling someone a moron.

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                kek pajeet melty

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                sorry dr shekelstien took your pp bro

              • 8 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why do you get so mad when someone calls you "moron pajeet"?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >developers tell publisher the game isn't close to ready for launch
        >publisher tells developers to eat shit, we're launching anyway
        pretty simple

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Boss asks me to write a report
          >I say I'll do it by Friday
          >He agrees.
          >I give it to him on Friday. Its half finished and full of typos.
          >He asks WTF
          >"ITS YOUR FAULT FOR MAKING ME TURN IT IN TODAY"

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Jeez anon, way to tip your hat about still being in school. Nobody gets any fricking thing done on time in the real world.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          >moron staving for you
          >giving him you
          anon ...

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >dev says game is still unoptimized and needs to cook another 3 months
        >publisher says they need to look good in this quarter so they have to release the game now or start paying penalties
        >dev has to fold since their nuts are in the publishers vise

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >developers tell publisher the game isn't close to ready for launch
        >publisher tells developers to eat shit, we're launching anyway
        pretty simple

        >dev says game is still unoptimized and needs to cook another 3 months
        >publisher says they need to look good in this quarter so they have to release the game now or start paying penalties
        >dev has to fold since their nuts are in the publishers vise

        >needing a publisher in 2023
        its not the 90s anymore
        what's a ""publisher"" even do nowadays?
        cuz they certainly dont make/distribute CDs and print manuals anymore

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Advertising. Which honestly is fricking everything in the social media hellscape.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Influencers do the majority of (effective) advertising today, not publishers. Give some moronic streamers free keys and that will get the word out.

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              That's not how it works. You see any major streamers giving attention to hidden indie gems? Frick no.

              That's not how the algorithm works. People do not click on things they don't know about it. If they don't recognize the game, no clicks, no promotion. Get fricked. Eat a dick. Die.

              They know by now not to touch anything that doesn't have the ad budget to raise viewer awareness and get clicks. All the worst parts of advertising are turned to 11 and set to full throttle in the social media hellscape. Idiot streamers stream popular things. They don't independently make things popular. Marketing's job is to make the thing popular.

  79. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >been playing for 2 hours and have heard the "yerba mate" quote at least ten fricking times
    i don't get it, they only have to run a commercial after every ten minute track, why did they record so few voice lines?
    seriously, really, actually literally, how much does it cost to have one funny person write 20 pages of lines and then get a voice actor in the studio for two hours to say them all?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're Finns, they don't know what 'funny' is

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Commercials were the dumbest thing about the radio stations in the original, right after the DJ "personalities"
      Don't know how they manage to frick it up in the sequel when they haven't changed how they do radio station dlc.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      you can disable radio ads

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        i like the radio ads but i don't like hearing the same one literally back to back
        untapped potential, which is the motto of this game

  80. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    DELETE CIMS

  81. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It mixed now, they are deleting all the negative review

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      patriots are back in control
      keep buying guys we can turn this disaster around!

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      oy vey

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It looks like it's just the fans of the series flooding in to the rescue with comments like,
      "All complaints 100% valid, performance pretty bad, no Steam Workshop, do recommend".

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It looks like the public saw through the brigade and gave positive reviews.
      It's over doomsisters, Paradox won.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        People would give positive reviews to a dead spider if it had a respected brand name slapped on it.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      They banned my positive review.
      They're killing the flamewar.

  82. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is it really that gpu heavy or are those just opinions from people that have no fricking idea that theres more to a pc?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It becomes pretty obvious when you open taskmanager and gpu usage is 100%, anyways all
      benchmarks said that it's gpu dependant.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      it is, in all the benchmarks you see the cpu chilling at 40-50% even in heavy loads and the gpu almost always maxed out

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The only thing that's unclear is if it's even utilizing more than a few threads. I've seen one anon post with the stats for all of their cpu threads on screen but they only posted from the title screen and not in game.

      "with max settings"
      https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2104929380092886532/9E35B41A328FD02A46F683079499FEB722A0603E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

      That's almost half internal resolution isn't it?

  83. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    They will release DLC for this game before fixing anything. Same thing happened with Stellaris. Paradox are fricking israelites.

  84. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Biden, Obama and Trump are having a blast with this you can too!

  85. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    nice next gen

  86. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    game confirmed for running just fine

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FSR
      you didn't render it

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      "with max settings"
      https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2104929380092886532/9E35B41A328FD02A46F683079499FEB722A0603E/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Looks pretty sweet for a 2001 game.

  87. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    When a game with performance like this came out 8 years ago, we called it Arkham Knight (I think that may have ran better) and it got pulled from stores. Now it is expected.

  88. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >can run cyberpunk at stable 60 fps maxed out
    >cant have stable 30 fps on this turd
    Yeah guys my PC is bad guess I have to buy upgrades

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      What do I upgrade to? I have an i9-13900K and an RTX 4090.

  89. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even my RX470 can run Anno 1800 High just fine.

  90. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    the performance optimization of the game is fricked even on top end systems that can run cyberpunk with full path tracing no issue. the game itself looks fun but you should wait until they've done proper optimization because for now its basically early access

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Anon its a paradox game. In case you didn't know the performance issues only get worse over time with them

  91. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just turn off rtx

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      i don't think this game even has ray tracing

  92. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"Games should be PC first"
    >you gays have less than the minimum requirements
    Kek

  93. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    No just wait until theres $400 worth of DLC for it and they fix the performance issues

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Piracy is the only ethical way to play paradox games.

  94. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    can someone make a webm so I can see how bad the perfomance is?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      i mean, shit, if you really want to see a webm of a game running at steady 40fps, i guess i can make one for you. Other than that, game's pretty consistent performance-wise, it drops down to 10fps in main menu for some reason and then it runs fine all the way through.

      I think it gets reviewbombed for idealistic issues, not practical ones. It's not that game is unplayable, it's just surprising how current gen high end GPUs paired with current gen high end CPUs are just barely running it fast enough.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >40 fps
        >not unplayable

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          sure whatever, pc master race yadda yadda, my point is that making a webm out of it won't bring much value into the topic because it just looks like a game running okay in there. it's not gta4, it's not gothic 3, can't quite make a video of game getting stuck for full seconds for funny meme webm value

  95. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >People are arguing over whether or not 30fps is acceptable with a 4090
    >People are rebutting with the fact that they can run it on 60fps with low settings using a 4090
    >In 2023 where no game that runs under 144fps is tolerable
    Paradox sucks dick. I'm tired of them buying all of the small devs out and building a monopoly on this kind of shit only to underdeliver and overcharge.

  96. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    if you say your game is going to have performance issues on launch, that tells me its going to be at least 6 months before the game is actually playable, otherwise you would have pushed the release out a few weeks

  97. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >no procedural terrain generation
    Black person SimCity 1 through 3000 had this

  98. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    DAILY REMINDER that Cities Life was a very competent city builder:

    >2008

  99. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I was looking forward to it.
    Why? You already have Pharaoh.

  100. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    try workers and resources soviet republic for some ultimate city builder tism

  101. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    When I booted, it ran like shit, but then I turned off vsync and it was fine.

  102. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am just not going to buy games that developers refuse to optimize. I'm not buying any game that can barely even walk without the crutches that are DLSS/FSR and frame generation. Optimize your games, or simply suffer the consequences in the long run.

  103. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've hit 70fps at 1440p using a 1080ti, after fricking about with settings. That's on an empty map, just water and tree shadows. Will probably shit itself a little once I get a high pop, but should be playable.

    Depth of field is particularly nuts, my main menu went from 10 fps to over 60 after disabling it. The main fricking menu. That's the sort of gain that tells you it's not the game doing actual work for the cost of those frames, it's bugged. Which at least means its fixable, though it shouldn't have been launched in this state.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      4090 kneels at 100k population so I don't see you getting very far anon

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think some settings are having an outsized effect; the 50+ fps gain for depth of fricking field says a lot. If the 4090 is leaving some of the bugged settings on, that could be a factor.

        I'm expecting a performance patch soon either way, because it's clearly bugged.

  104. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    someone should make a checkers game which requires ray tracing and 16 cpu threads

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >16 cpu threads
      Do you mean cores? Even benign programs have hundreds of threads running.

  105. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    is there a way to remote play this game?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >is there a way to remote play this game?
      mostly in theory

  106. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the first game your city became unplayable after an object limit had been reached. And yet they sold 62 DLC for this quite fundamentally broken game. I do not trust this company.

  107. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    i am the casual gamer of the future

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